As someone who worked outside a lot, I am amused that so many people think the earth is pristine, like a Disney version of nature. They apparently don't get outside enough to look down and notice that the ground is crawling with insects all the time.

However, experts said the spiders presence are not exactly a bad thing and should not be anything to be concerned about from neighbors.

According to Memphis Zoo curator Steve Reichling, the webs are the result of many spiders that have gone unnoticed.

"It's a mass dispersal of the millions of tiny spiders that have always been in that field, unnoticed till now. It could be juveniles - millions - in a big emergence event, or adults of a tiny species - probably a sheetweb spider - leaving for some reason possibly knowable only to them," Reichling said. "In fields and meadows, there are often literally millions of spiders doing their thing, unseen and unappreciated by us. I would not want to live in a world where such things were no longer possible. The presence of these spiders tells us that all is well with nature at that location."

But, for those dealing with them on a daily basis, they are anything but a good thing.

"I've never seen anything like this. It's like a horror movie. Never seen nothing like this before," Ward said.

"They're in the air, flying everywhere. They all on the house, on the side of the windows."